The tomb group represents one of the richest and most impressive sets of Etruscan jewelry ever found. It comprises a splendid gold and glass pendant necklace, a pair of gold and rock-crystal disk earrings, a gold dress fastener (fibula) decorated with a sphinx, a pair of plain gold fibulae, a gold dress pin, and five finger rings. Two of the rings have engraved scarabs that revolve on a swivel bezel; one is decorated with embossed satyr heads, and the other two have decorated gold bezels.
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Title:Set of jewelry
Period:Late Archaic
Date:early 5th century BCE
Culture:Etruscan
Medium:Gold, glass, rock crystal, agate, carnelian
Dimensions:Length (L. of necklace): 14 3/16 in. (36 cm) Diameter (D. of disks): 2 3/8 in. (6.1 cm) Length (L. of fibula): 1 15/16 in. (5 cm) Length (L. of fibulae): 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm) Length (L. of pin): 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm) Diameter (D. of ring with youth intaglio): 7/8 in. (2.2 cm) Diameter (D. of ring with Herakles intaglio): 15/16 in. (2.4 cm) Diameter (D. of ring with bird intaglio): 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm) Diameter (D. of plain ring 31/32): 15/16 in. (2.5 cm) Diameter (D. of ring with lion intaglio): 7/8 in. (2.2 cm)
Classification:Gold and Silver
Credit Line:Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940
Object Number:40.11.7–.18
From a tomb in Vulci (Camposcala), Italy (Lenormant 1834, p. 246; Campanari 1835, p. 203)
1832 or 1833, excavated in Vulci (Camposcala); [with Domenico Campanari, Rome]; 1834, acquired by Vicomte Gustave-Adolphe Beugnot (1799-1861), purchased from Domenico Campanari; 1834, acquired by Rougemont de Löwenberg, possibly as a gift, from Vicomte Beugnot; collection of baron Rougemont de Löwenberg and descendants, Neuchâtel, Switzerland; [by 1930 and until 1940, with Charles Albert de Burlet, Basel, Switzerland]; acquired in 1940, purchased from Charles Albert de Burlet, Basel, Switzerland.
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Campanari, Domenico. 1835. "Sopra alcuni rari sepolcri volcenti." Bullettino dell'Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica, : pp. 203–5.
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